16 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-smallParing down a FreeBSD system for flas...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Joe Schmoe | Jun 15, 2004 12:16 am | |
| Murray Taylor | Jun 15, 2004 12:34 am | |
| Joe Schmoe | Jun 15, 2004 4:04 am | |
| Bruce R. Montague | Jun 15, 2004 4:47 am | |
| Bruce R. Montague | Jun 15, 2004 4:57 am | |
| Murray Taylor | Jun 15, 2004 5:25 am | |
| Francois Tigeot | Jun 15, 2004 7:33 am | |
| Claudiu Chirita | Jun 15, 2004 8:00 am | |
| Francois Tigeot | Jun 15, 2004 8:44 am | |
| Dirk-Willem van Gulik | Jun 15, 2004 9:13 am | |
| Chad R. Larson | Jun 16, 2004 2:09 am | |
| Murray Taylor | Jun 16, 2004 3:40 am | |
| M. Warner Losh | Jun 16, 2004 5:45 am | |
| M. Warner Losh | Jun 16, 2004 5:53 am | |
| Murray Taylor | Jun 16, 2004 6:49 am | |
| M. Warner Losh | Jun 18, 2004 12:40 am |
| Subject: | Paring down a FreeBSD system for flash drive use ? | |
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| From: | M. Warner Losh (im...@bsdimp.com) | |
| Date: | Jun 16, 2004 5:45:32 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-small | |
In message: <1087...@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> Murray Taylor <murr...@bytecraftsystems.com> writes: : On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 12:09, Chad R. Larson wrote: : > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 09:04:28PM -0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: : > > : > > Murray Taylor <murr...@bytecraftsystems.com> wrote: : > > Google for minibsd : > > : > > http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html : > > : > > I have used miniBSD as a firewall box on an Advantech WEB-2143 : > > quite successfully : > : > Another thing to consider is that the FreeBSD 4.x kernel is quite a : > bit bigger than in the old days. Bloat seems like entropy, : > inevitable without constant care. Since most embedded systems are : > not going to need SMP, nor the advanced virtual memory systems (no : > disk--no swap), you might rather build your system starting with : > perhaps a 2.2.8 system. : > : > -crl : : FWIW : Im using FreeBSD 4.7 in a 32MB Compact Flash card ... : : df -h says I'm using 47% of the CF card...
Bah! I've made 4.5 bootable CF's using only 9MB of my 16MB flash... 47% of 32 is 15MB :-). Of course that's w/o X. The 3.4 based system was only about 1MB smaller.
I do it by not trusting installworld. It installs way too much, so instead, I have a list of directories to install and a glue script. I'm currently adapting things to 5.x and hope to make it less TSC specific.
Warner